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...presume to be the spokesman for the "disunited" (another untruth) Bouvier clan, let me say that all of us were proud and delighted about Jackie's engagement at the time, and that we are united in wishing her and her husband splendid years of service to our country...
...artists of Japan, he was fascinated with detail-every petal on the flower, every insect in the grass. He painted cows endlessly (he was born in the Year of the Cow), gave them such childlike titles as The Calf Doesn't Want to Go. "The horse is a splendid animal, but the cow is irregular. You can make more out of it," he said. In an early self-portrait of himself as a golfer, he made himself look like a Japanese war lord, his mashie like a samurai sword...
This week the Toledo Museum of Art is displaying the first major exhibition of French 17th century art ever shown in the U.S. (see color). The show, billed as "The Splendid Century," was five years in the gathering, involved scores of French officials from Cultural Minister André Malraux on down, includes works from 50 French and U.S. museums. It opened in Washington's National Gallery, in March will move to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, its final stop...
Pastry Cook's Path. One name boldly signed to the Splendid Century is Le Nain. It belonged to three famous brothers of Laon, who, confusingly, often worked together on the same canvas and rarely signed their first names to anything. But scholars have gone far in separating the three. Antoine, according to contemporary accounts, "excelled in miniatures and portraits in small." The peasant paintings of Louis, the most talented of the three, were a happy blend of Dutch naturalism and Roman classicism. Mathieu, the most successful, became master painter to the city of Paris, assumed the title of Seigneur...
...Thompson didn't know about." He might barge into a gallery, start haggling over prices without so much as a word of greeting. He could be lavishly generous with friends, cab drivers and bellboys, but with dealers he was tough. He bought up Cezannes, Braques, Matisses, Legers, a splendid Picasso series, more than 70 Giacometti sculptures. He gathered one of the biggest collections of Paul Klees in the world. All these he hung in his burglarproof home called Stone's Throw, outside Pittsburgh, and only people he liked and trusted ever got to see them...